Latin America In The Vortex Of Social Change

Author : Henry Veltmeyer,James Petras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429627002

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Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change by Henry Veltmeyer,James Petras Pdf

This book explores the dynamics of the recent ‘progressive cycle’ in Latin American politics, associated with a red and pink tide of regime change. With this cycle of centre-left regimes oriented towards an alternative post-neoliberal form of development now coming to an end, coinciding with the end of a ‘primary commodities boom’ (the demand for natural resources exported in primary form on the world market), the authors seek to explore the dynamics of the transition from a progressive cycle of regimes oriented towards the search for a more inclusive form of development towards what appears to be another swing in the pendulum of electoral politics towards the far right and a return to neoliberal orthodoxy. Within the vortex of forces of change pushing towards both the Left and the Right, Latin America lies at the centre of ongoing heated theoretical and political debates as to how to bring about a more inclusive and sustainable form of post-neoliberal and post-capitalist development. Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change crucially aims to cut through these debates and explore the dynamics of the forces of change at work in the current conjuncture of capitalist development. With reference to a theoretical framework based on the interaction of three different forms of capitalism (capitalism as usual, extractive capitalism, narco-capitalism), the authors proceed to an analysis of the development and resistance dynamics of the development process that is unfolding on the Latin American political landscape. The book will appeal to scholars of political sociology and political theory with an interest in the political economy of development and Latin American affairs.

Author : Henry Veltmeyer,Edgar Zayago Lau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000198874

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Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America by Henry Veltmeyer,Edgar Zayago Lau Pdf

This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives. In the current climate of worldwide capitalist development, Latin America is caught between left-leaning proposals for progressive policies towards a more inclusive form of development, and the re-emergence of harsh austerity measures, neoliberal reforms and right-wing populism. Divided into two parts, this book first provides a retrospective analysis of the advance of resource-seeking ‘extractive’ capital across the continent since the 1990s. The second part goes on to focus on forward-looking challenges to neoliberal capitalist development, focusing in particular on the indigenous notion of buen vivir/vivir bien – the concept of ‘living well’ in social solidarity and harmony with nature. Drawing on cases in Mexico and Venezuela, the book argues that it will be through these new approaches to social change that we will move beyond development as we know it towards a more inclusive form of ‘postdevelopment’. Looking hopefully towards this future of development, this collection offers an essential analysis of the vortex of social change currently consuming Latin America and will be key reading for advanced scholars and researchers in the fields of Development Studies, Latin America Studies, Politics, and Social Change.

Author : Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1551118726

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On the Move by Henry Veltmeyer Pdf

"With irony, insight, and elegant simplicity, Veltmeyer shows us how the power of money and the power of collective commitment interact in the sweepstakes of social history." - Jan Knippers Black, Monterey Institute for International Studies

Author : Stefan A. Halper,John R. Sterling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Latin America
ISBN : OCLC:921034394

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Latin America by Stefan A. Halper,John R. Sterling Pdf

Author : June Nash,Juan Corradi,Hobart Spalding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136858673

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Ideology and Social Change in Latin America by June Nash,Juan Corradi,Hobart Spalding Pdf

First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism. It will be of interest to anthropologists, students of political science and specialists in Latin American studies.

Author : June C. Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760343769

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Ideology and Social Change in Latin America by June C. Nash Pdf

Author : Jorge Larrain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745667515

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Identity and Modernity in Latin America by Jorge Larrain Pdf

In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships. Drawing on a large body of work across a vast historical and geographical range, he offers an innovative and wide-ranging account of the cultural transformations and processes of modernization that have occurred in Latin America since colonial times. The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the concepts of modernity and identity. In contrast to theories which present modernity and identity in Latin America as mutually excluding phenomena, the book shows their continuity and interconnection. It also traces historically the respects in which the Latin American trajectory to modernity differs from or converges with other trajectories, using this as a basis to explore specific elements of Latin America's culture and modernity today. The originality of Larrain's approach lies in the wide coverage and combination of sources drawn from the social sciences, history and literature. The volume relates social commentaries, literary works and media developments to the periods covered, to the changing social end economic structure, and to changes in the prevailing ideologies. This book will appeal to second and third-year undergraduates and Masters level students doing courses in sociology, cultural studies and Latin American history, politics and literature. .

Author : Karen Silva-Torres,Carolina Rozo-Higuera,Daniel S. Leon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000440164

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Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America by Karen Silva-Torres,Carolina Rozo-Higuera,Daniel S. Leon Pdf

Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America provides fourteen contributions to understand, from a multidisciplinary perspective, processes of socio-political reconfigurations in the region from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s. The Left Turn was the regional shift to left-of-center governments and social movements that sought to replace the neoliberal policies of the 1990s. This volume aims to answer the overarching research question: how do state and societal (national and transnational) actors trigger and shape processes of political and socio-economic transitions in Latin America from the rise to the decline of the Left Turn. The book presents case studies in which transitions are moments of change and uncertainty, which one cannot predict their definitive outcomes. The various case studies presented in the book place actors and processes in specific historical and socio-political contexts, which are influenced directly or indirectly by the historical trajectory of Latin America’s Left Turn. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of Social and Political History, Latin American History, and those interested in the social and political developments in Latin America more broadly.

Author : Ra�l Zibechi
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849351072

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Territories in Resistance by Ra�l Zibechi Pdf

A thoughtful examination of social relations in Latin America, from one of the region's foremost political analysts.

Author : Felipe Cala Buendía
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137462237

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Cultural Producers and Social Change in Latin America by Felipe Cala Buendía Pdf

In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendía looks at ways in which cultural producers adapted or developed strategies as resources for social actors to use for change.

Author : Sandor Halebsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429970412

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Capital, Power, And Inequality In Latin America by Sandor Halebsky Pdf

Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region’s accelerated integration into the global economy. Although this transformation has tended to exacerbate various inequities, new forms of popular expression and action challenging the contemporary structures of capital and power have also developed. This volume is a comprehensive, genuinely comparative text on contemporary Latin America. In it, an international group of contributors offer multidimensional analyses of the historical context, contemporary character, and future direction of rural transformation, urbanization, economic restructuring, and the transition to political democracy. In addition, individual essays address the changing role of women, the influence of religion, the growth of new social movements, the struggles of indigenous peoples, and ecological issues. Finally, the book examines the influence of U.S. policy and of regionalization and globalization on the Latin American states. Sandor Halebsky is professor of sociology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He coedited Cuba in Transition: Crisis and Transformation (Westview, 1992). Richard L. Harris is chair of the faculty at Golden Gate University in Monterey, California. He is one of the coordinating editors of the journal Latin American Perspectives and the author of Marxism, Socialism, and Democracy in Latin America (Westview, 1992).

Author : Mark Goodale,Nancy Postero
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804786447

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Neoliberalism, Interrupted by Mark Goodale,Nancy Postero Pdf

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. socialism, right vs. left, indigenous vs. mestizo, and national vs. transnational. Deploying both ethnographic research and more synthetic reflections on meaning, consequence, and possibility, the essays focus on the ways in which a range of unresolved contradictions interconnect various projects for change and resistance to change in Latin America. Useful to students and scholars across disciplines, this groundbreaking volume reorients how sociopolitical change has been understood and practiced in Latin America. It also carries important lessons for other parts of the world with similar histories and structural conditions.

Author : June C. Nash,Juan E. Corradi,Hobart Spalding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Populism
ISBN : OCLC:1135833942

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Ideology & Social Change in Latin America by June C. Nash,Juan E. Corradi,Hobart Spalding Pdf

Author : Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409499145

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What's Left in Latin America? by Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras Pdf

This book concerns recent and current political developments in Latin America related to the emergence of left-leaning regimes riding the waves of anti-neoliberalism and a primary commodities boom. Based on five years of field research and a critical engagement with social movements in the region, the book documents the short-term advances and strategic weaknesses of these left-leaning regimes, highlighting their failure to take advantage of favourable economic and political conditions. The authors profile four cases of recent and current political developments, and the prospects for socialism, in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela.

Author : Stefan A. Halper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975-03
Category : Revolutions
ISBN : 0312473206

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Latin America by Stefan A. Halper Pdf